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The Multi-Game Campaign

I’ve wanted to do this but never have. Have you done it? The idea is simple, the execution complex. For each major chapter in your RPG campaign, you use a different game to resolve the action. You hack and modify the games you want to use like crazy, some more...

Geography of Games

Each roleplaying game is a city. This is what I’ve been thinking about as I’ve been turning over definitions of roleplaying games and story games in my head, these past few days. RPGs and cities are two of my favorite things to read about and explore. I...

The First Fourteen Reverb Gamer Prompts

The Reverb Gamers blog prompts, from Atlas Games, have inspired quite a few game bloggers this month. The project offers thirty-one prompts for thirty-one days of January blogging. It’s a fine idea. Alas, without the time to devote to daily blogging, I’ve...

What Makes Combat Fun?

Here’s another thing that’s been open in my browser for a while: Mike Birkhead, via Gamasutra, asking “What makes combat fun?” I love reading this kind of article. Birkhead gets into details in this piece, breaking down what combat actually is...

The Feminism of Space Marine

This has been open in a tab in my browser for weeks. I think I found this through Gamasutra. I keep meaning to ask you about it. The link is this: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine – Most Suprisingly Feminist Game of the Year Contender. An excerpt: [2nd Lieutenant...